The only time this tiny child got to see his father alive: Mother recalls holding her four-day-old son beside her husband's hospital bed two days before the 44-year-old died following a series of blunders by doctors

Terry Hickson, 44, from Liverpool, held son Xander once before his death

Widow Louise, 32, has been in a five year battle with hospital over blunders

Medics failed to give him correct medication and he died of cardiac arrest

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She said: 'That's the last thing my husband ever said to me. It was traumatising.'

Two days later, Mrs Hickson received a call saying her husband had gone into cardiac arrest and had died.

The mother-of-four says she 'has not felt pain like it' and was screaming and crying when she heard the news.

Widow Louise Hickson, 32, who gave birth to son Xander by cesarean just three days before her husband's death, has been in a five year battle with the hospital

The family has been awarded £140,000 damages after NHS bosses finally admitted to their errors.

Mr Hickson was rushed to hospital in 2012 with suspected kidney stones which turned out to be an incarcerated hernia, causing his lugs to fill with fluid after it burst through his stomach and bowel.

In the following days medics did not identify Mr Hickson as being at risk of a blood clot as he spent 13 days in hospital after his operation.

The father was not prescribed blood thinning and he was eventually killed by a huge fatal clot that travelled up his leg to his heart.

Mrs Hickson said: 'The hospital made mistake after mistake and their ­catalogue of errors led to the death of my husband'.

Since her husband's death, the mother has suffered depression and painful fibromyalgia which was triggered by the horrific trauma.

But she said she fought the hospital because she wanted an apology over her husband's death and she says can finally move on.

A spokesperson for Wirral University of Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust told the Mirror: 'We would like to express our sincere condolences to Mr ­Hickson's family. We are extremely sorry for their loss.

'Regrettably errors were made back in 2012 and our care fell below our usual high standards.'